Remzşinas Hanım
Remzşinas Hanım[1] (Ottoman Turkish: رمزشناس خانم; meaning "Knower of Signs"[2]) was the seventh wife of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire.[1]
| Remzşinas Hanım | |||||
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| Died | Istanbul, Turkey | ||||
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| House | Ottoman (by marriage) | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
Life
Remzşinas married Murad in 1870s before his accession to the throne. She remained childless.[1] After Murad ascended the throne on 30 May 1876, after the deposition of his uncle Sultan Abdulaziz,[3] she was given the title of "Third Ikbal".[1] After reigning for three months, Murad was deposed on 30 August 1876,[4] due to mental instability and was imprisoned in the Çırağan Palace. Remzşinas also followed Murad into confinement.[5]
She was widowed at Murad's death in 1904, after which her ordeal in the Çırağan Palace came to an end.[6] In widowhood, her stipend consisted of 1500 kuruş. However, later, during the reign of Sultan Mehmed V, it was reduced to only 500 kuruş.[1] After which her step-daughter, Hatice Sultan, wrote to Mehmet Cavit Bey, member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP),[7] asking him to raise her stipend at least to 800 kuruş.[1]
At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Remzşinas as being the adjunct member of the family decided to stay in Istanbul. She died on an unknown date.[8]
In literature
- Remzşinas is a character in Ayşe Osmanoğlu's historical novel The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus (2020).[9]
References
- Bardakçı 1998, p. 614.
- Brookes 2010, p. 65 n. 37.
- Roudometof, Victor (2001). Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 86–87. ISBN 978-0-313-31949-5.
- Williams, Augustus Warner; Gabriel, Mgrditch Simbad (1896). Bleeding Armedia: Its History and Horrors Under the Curse of Islam. Publishers union. p. 214.
- Brookes 2010, p. 65.
- Brookes 2010, p. 17.
- Bardakçı 1998, p. 55.
- Brookes 2010, p. 288.
- Osmanoğlu, Ayşe (May 30, 2020). The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus: The Ottomans: The Story of a Family. Ayşe Osmanoğlu. ISBN 978-1-9163614-1-6.
Sources
- Brookes, Douglas Scott (2010). The concubine, the princess, and the teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem, based on Filizten's memoir, Twenty-Eight Years in Çırağan Palace: The Life of Murad V. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292718425.
- Bardakçı, Murat (1998). Şahbaba: Osmanoğulları'nın son hükümdarı VI. Mehmed Vahideddin'in hayatı, hatıraları, ve özel mektupları. Pan Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-757-65275-5.
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